Our mission is to automate coding. The first step in our journey is to build the best tool for professional programmers, using a combination of inventive research, design, and engineering. Our organization is very flat, and our team is small and talent dense. We particularly like people who are truth-seeking, passionate, and creative. We enjoy spirited debate, crazy ideas, and shipping code.
About the Role:
We are seeking a Regional Director, Commercial Sales to lead our new Commercial segment focused on high-value, fast-growing digital native businesses. This team will be the first line of communication with startups that have the potential to become Cursor's largest enterprise customers in the future.
You'll manage, coach, and grow a founding team of commercial AEs responsible for high-velocity sales cycles, true-up processes, and rapid response to inbound leads. As the founding sales leader in this motion, you will define and refine a repeatable playbook, establish forecasting practices, and help shape the trajectory of a segment that is brand new to the business.
What You'll Do:
Lead, coach, and develop a team of commercial AEs focused on high-velocity, transactional sales
Define and implement a repeatable commercial sales motion and supporting playbook
Establish regular forecasting practices for the commercial segment
Partner with RevOps and GTM leadership to refine tooling, processes, and reporting
Collaborate cross-functionally with Marketing, Finance, and Post-Sales to ensure seamless lead flow, forecasting accuracy, and account handoff
Hire, onboard, and scale a founding team of AEs
Act as a thought partner to senior GTM leadership in shaping the strategy for this new business segment
What We're Looking For:
Experience leading a high-velocity/transactional sales team or demonstrated success as a high-performing velocity & enterprise AE with player/coach experience
Strong coaching skills with a track record of developing early-career sales talent into higher-scope roles
Experience with PLG/velocity sales cycles
Experience building and refining sales processes, playbooks, and forecasting systems
Ability to thrive in ambiguity and build structure in a new, fast-moving business segment
Excellent cross-functional collaboration skills
Strong communication and organizational skills, with comfort presenting to leadership and influencing outcomes
Skills Required
- Experience leading a high-velocity or transactional sales team, or demonstrated success as a high-performing velocity and enterprise account executive with player-coach experience
- Strong coaching skills and a track record of developing early-career sales talent into higher-scope roles
- Experience with product-led growth or velocity sales cycles
- Experience building and refining sales processes, playbooks, and forecasting systems
- Ability to thrive in ambiguity and build structure in a new, fast-moving business segment
- Excellent cross-functional collaboration skills
- Strong communication and organizational skills, including comfort presenting to leadership and influencing outcomes
What We Do
We'd like to automate coding. To advance that mission, we're building Cursor. Our work includes training the world’s most widely used coding models, creating infrastructure that supports billions of requests per day, and building better ways for humans and AIs to work together.
